Last night Amador County residents in the Jackson and Sutter Creek areas lost power for the third day in a row as PG&E announced yesterday that the power would be shut off between 11pm and 3am while they worked on the transformer that blew on Monday due to heat.  PG&E spokesperson Nicole Tam said the planned outage was to allow PG&E crews time perform replacement work to increase electric viability. We will have to approx. 1600 customer in Jackson and sc offline so interruption of service. Tam wanted to be sure to express to local residents that PG&E understands that this poses as an inconvenience for many, “but in order for crews to safely do the work they have to take the customers offline.” She continued by saying that they chose to do the work after normal business hours as to not be more of a hindrance.  Customers calls went out at 3pm and then again at 7pm informing customers that the power would be out and allowing them the option of a morning wake up call since alarm clocks would likely not be reset when the power was turned at 3am. Tam said the service is not a regular one and is used only when there are planned outages. Again Tam said, “We want to express our appreciation for our customers patience.”